How would I change the size and place of the respawn timer for myself when I'm dead? I like my current hud but the respawn timer is too small and out of the way imo.

Loving my svift shirt, glad to support you guys. :)

That's pretty wierd, even my cousins from germany who have a dad from the us and regularly visit my grandparents in the us have pretty distinct accents, even their dad has an accent now.

Ah, ok. That never happened back when I used to use dx lvl commands to switch between dx 8 and 9 back in 2015-2016. :P

Issue figured out, it was my mouse. After finding my old crappy mouse and figuring it it didn't have the issue and seeing that with my main mouse if I touched anywhere on my mouse 1 but a specific spot it would start bursting and tapping weapons in csgo and r6 when they should be spraying. Time to make use of that logitech 2 year warranty.

Update, once I got the config working, I put in you recommended launch options and it kept forcing the game to full screens and a res of 1024x600, but not full defaults like before the config was properly installed.
On further investigation, with your config any dxlvl launch option (I tested 98, 90, and 81) forces the game to launch fullscreen in that res for some reason but once removed things go back to normal.

turns out whatever happened it was fixed by doing the config cleaning steps over and downloading the config.

After following the instructions for installing the zip version tf2 keeps launching in default (and yes, I did replace the config cleaning launch options with the recommended ones). I even tried deleting the folder from custom and moving the contents of comfig.cfg to my autoexec, and removing my autoexec and just changing settings in the tf2 menus and tf2 always launches default, this is especially annoying because I play in windowed for screen size reasons.

Shadowburn on Pharaph today was hitting shots like in his frag vids, I began hearing edgy music in my head. ;)

I meant vanilla when I said "It happens with normal reloading too but less often.", also it effects trying to fire on the automatic reload that kicks in on empty.
Also I already use interp settings that I've been using for years that I got from comagnlia's fps config back when I used that. Lastly my connection and ping are fine and I have no issues in other shooters like cs:go, dirty bomb, and r6:siege.

I took a break from tf2 for a few months and when I came back I began experiencing some serious with my firing/reloading that only happens in tf2, not any other shooters, even source ones.

The main issue is often both online and offline the game gets lagged up in the reload animation preventing me from firing, I've tried both auto reload and binding mouse one to "+attack; +relaod", both have the issue. It happens with normal reloading too but less often. Also, something that might be related is that since this started, when online on servers shotguns/scatterguns shoot slower than they should.

I've tried verifying game files and reinstalling and using that launch option that sets things to defaults after removing configs.

Any ideas on how to fix or at to least troubleshoot what's wrong?

I have found you can mitigate it by turning off your console so at least your computer doesn't have to deal with the error text spam. Helps a little bit for me.

In the stream the casters said he was mia for the weekend and he didn't get an answer from b4nny.

The TF2 community is great, especially smile emote dance parties during pauses, thanks marblr. :)

He just posted a long apology under his stream saying that all but the pass time stuff (which he and rapid learned from a pass time dev in a mumble chat after the playtest, rapid made a video on that info), he says the rest was rumors from friends and speculation which he's sorry if people fully believed. He also said he'll be more in depth in the apology stream.

I feel he was bit more definitive in statements than he claims (when I pushed him on that towards the end of a steam chat about it he said "yeah well" "sorry alright" "i'll quit youtube" "god" "gn".)

But hey, he's making progress by at least admitting to being in the wrong.